Success is a matter of release.
Launching July 6, 2026
The App
A guided somatic course you carry with you. The Cat Series, the foundational arch and curl, modifications for every body. Short, floor-based sessions that re-teach the brain to let go. No fluff. No flexing harder. Just a quiet, repeatable way back into your body.
No fluff approach to healing that lasts.
The Method
One in five Americans suffers from chronic low back pain. Eighty percent will feel it in their lifetime. Chiropractic takes time and money. Pills mask. Alternative care often feels too woo. There is a quieter, more durable way that lives between all of those, and your body already knows it.
Somatics, a term coined by Thomas Hanna, simply means body and mind treated as one. Not two systems. One. The Finger Trap Method is built on Hanna's tradition: re-teach the brain how to release the muscles it has quietly forgotten how to relax.
Your body has three protective reflex patterns. The startle reflex pulls you forward. The trauma reflex curls you sideways after a fall or impact. The Landau reflex holds you upright and forward, like running toward something. They are not bad. They serve you. The problem starts when they don't switch off.
Trigger a reflex enough times and the brain says got it, I'll handle this. It moves the pattern below conscious control. Now you're walking around in a low-grade brace you can't feel and can't release. Hanna called this Motor Sensory Amnesia, the body forgetting how to let go.
Motor Sensory Amnesia is a maladaptive response. Learned. Avoidable. Reversible. Slow, deliberate, conscious movement teaches the brain to take back control of muscles it had handed off to autopilot. That's the Finger Trap Method, distilled into a series of guided movements you can do on the floor, in ten to fifteen minutes a day.
Not stretching harder. Not pushing through. Releasing what was holding on. Bodies that move easier. Standing taller with less effort. Aging without bracing for it. As Thomas Hanna put it: as we grow older, our bodies and our lives should continue to improve, right up until the very end.
The three reflexes the method releases
Holds you upright. Forward. Running toward.
Curls the side. Braces after impact.
Pulls the chest in. Protects the front.
From the practice
“My shoulders haven't hurt since you worked with me.”
“It feels easier to be in my body. Lighter. I can stand up easier and with less effort.”
“It feels more productive than a massage but we still get a lot of pops like chiropractic.”
“Every time I work with Jade I feel relaxed and I'm excited to have an hour dedicated to me, relaxing.”
“The pain I experienced in the past due to scoliosis has greatly diminished. My body feels lighter and more fluid.”
“As we grow older, our bodies, and our lives, should continue to improve, right up until the very end.”
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